Mediagazer: Report: Number of Magazine Launches Continues to Decrease (Bill Mickey/Folio)

6:50 AM ET, July 10, 2013

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Edmund Lee / Bloomberg:

Maxim Magazine Said to Fetch Bids of About $20 Million — Maxim magazine, the bawdy men's title that went up for sale in March, is seeing some bids of about $20 million, less than a 10th of the price its owners paid six years ago, according to people familiar with the situation.

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Riva Gold / The Atlantic Online:

Newsroom Diversity: A Casualty of Journalism's Financial Crisis — New numbers from the American Society of News Editors show that the progress of women and minorities in media has halted. — The American Society of News Editors (ASNE) recently released its annual study of newsroom diversity.

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Bill Mickey / Folio:

Report: Number of Magazine Launches Continues to Decrease — New title total down again for first half, to 97, says MediaFinder. — In its quarterly survey, MediaFinder reported that 97 magazines launched and 29 closed in the first half of 2013. — Once again, the categories most likely …

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Todd Spangler / Variety:

Guggenheim Exit Leaves Hulu a Pay-TV Pawn — Three bidders remain: DirecTV, AT&T, Time Warner Cable — The pay-TV biz is going to get its hands on Hulu. — With Guggenheim Digital Media and KKR opting out of the hunt for Hulu, as CNBC reported Tuesday, that leaves three bidders …

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Jeff Bercovici / Forbes:
Hulu Sale Attracts Plenty Of Bidders, But For What, Exactly?

Discussion: Fortune, Broadcasting & Cable, Variety and Wall Street Journal

Dan Kennedy / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Charting a locally owned, for-profit future for community news — For those of a certain age, perusing the ads posted at The Batavian, the for-profit news site in Batavia, New York, can seem a lot like flipping through the pages of a weekly community newspaper a generation or two ago.

Discussion: Street Fight, FishbowlNY and The Batavian

Justin Ellis / Nieman Journalism Lab:

Can't stop, won't stop: PRX introduces an app for unending audio storytelling — PRX is proposing a new model for what a radio station (or a “radio” “station") can be with a new app that offers up pieces from shows you like, some from a few you may not recognize, and then puts the whole thing on shuffle.

Discussion: Current.org and AppNewser

Nick Wing / The Huffington Post:

Ron Paul Getting In The Media Business — Former Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) is taking a crack at being a media mogul with the forthcoming launch of his new venture, “The Ron Paul Channel.” — Expected to make a splash sometime this summer — most likely in August, according to the Daily Caller …

Discussion: The Daily Caller and IVN

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Conservative Voice Goes From ‘View’ to Fox News — Fox News announced a sudden shake-up of its morning show “Fox & Friends” on Tuesday night, hiring Elisabeth Hasselbeck from ABC's “The View” to replace Gretchen Carlson, who has been a co-host of the morning show for seven years.

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Rani Molla / GigaOM:

Prss is trying to design the iPad publishing app that Apple never built — A Netherlands-based company wants to revolutionize iPad publishing. In much the same way that Quark enabled desktop publishing in the eighties and platforms like WordPress and Tumblr allowed anyone to cheaply …

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Sydney Brownstone / Co.Exist:

Twitter Vs. Mainstream Media: Science Proves Which Breaks News Faster — The revolution will not be televised, but it might be tweeted. A new study shows that Twitter has a lead time on newswires for certain stories—including sports, disasters, and sometimes riots.

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Greg Sandoval / The Verge:

Pandora's PR problem: how the web radio titan became music's big villain — The company has made few friends with its pitch for higher royalties — When Tim Westergren says something about music, it's easy to believe him. He not only possesses rock-star good looks and a background as a pianist …

Cliff Edwards / Bloomberg:

Netflix CEO Raises Hackles With Earnings Videocast Plans — Netflix Inc. (NFLX) Chief Executive Officer Reed Hastings, who drew regulatory scrutiny with Facebook posts on subscriber gains, is raising hackles again with plans for a moderated videocast instead of a quarterly earnings call.

Discussion: Associated Press and Quartz